Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game. The cancellation of today's game means that the team will start on its southern trip next week with only one outside game, that with New Hampshire State College here on Wednesday. But as the Bowdoin team was composed entirely of new men, and had had even less outdoor practice than the University, the lessened experience which its cancellation means will not be serious for the Crimson nine...
Yesterday the University baseball team was again confined to the Cage because of poor weather conditions. Unless the cold spell breaks today the nine will have had no outdoor practice since last Saturday before the game with Bowdoin tomorrow. In the work in the Cage, Coach Slattery, because of reports from Brunswick that the Bowdoin team has only young and inexperienced pitchers, has concentrated on batting practice. The men have been carefully drilled in batting, and their faults pointed out and corrected...
Since farming is an outdoor rather than an indoor industry, it is subject to times and seasons. The farmer's work must be done when outdoor conditions are right and not when the farmer would prefer to work. This is a point which many indoor people fail to grasp. They are so independent of the sun and so much the slaves of the clock that they can not even rise an hour earlier in the morning without setting their clocks ahead...
...outdoor people, on the other hand, find it necessary to follow the sun. Hay-making, for example, cannot begin when the hands of the clock have reached a certain point on the dial, it must begin when the sun has dried the dew. A thousand other farm operations are similarly regulated by the sun rather than by the hands of the clock...
After nearly two weeks of outdoor practice Coach Young has been able to pick a tentative team from the 1923 baseball squad. It lines up as follows: pitchers, R. P. Field, J. C. Watson, and J. Anastas; catcher, R. H. Keegan; first base, K. B. Lucas; second base, C. C. Lee; third base, C. C. Buell; shortstop, R. Worthington, or M. J. Vitkin; outfield, D. F. Thayer, G. Owen...